Books published by University of Georgia Press

These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself.

These essays explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The work focuses on approaches to change in ethical theory, the need to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems and the need for non-traditional solutions.

An ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as the most traditional, but also the most adaptive, members of the entire tribe. Neely explains this paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture.

Drawing upon letters, autobiographies and novels, this book examines the strategies that various southern women writers in the USA have used to create their own ""voice"", their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. This book is written within a chronological framework.

This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters. Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation.

A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family - eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister - and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead.

In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities--among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons.

The Stegemans follow the life of a woman whose spirit and determination led her far beyond the domestic concerns of most women of her day. The wife of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, Caty was a close friend of George and Martha Washington, a business partner of Eli Whitney, and mistress of two Georgia plantations.

Presents the social and cultural history of the New South's ""Gate City"", which looks at the variety of public amusements available to Atlantans from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of the Great Depression, including theater, vaudeville, dime museums, movies, radio, and classical, blues, and country music.

Examines political culture and reform through the evolving temperance and prohibition movements in Middle Florida. Lee Willis takes a close look at the Florida plantation belt to reveal that the campaign against alcohol had a dramatic impact on public life in this portion of the South as early as the 1840s.

A collection of essays interwoven with poems and folklore. Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer and explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practise her art.

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout the city's amicable race relations. Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of its moderate progressivism.

Examines what it means to live in a place that once was, but no longer is, ethnically and religiously diverse. This study of memories of interethnic relationships in a local place examines why the cultural memory of tolerance has become so popular and raises questions regarding the nature and meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary Middle East.